Beautifully Said: Sylvia Earle

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In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re sharing and celebrating the social and economic achievements of women. These beautiful and brilliant quotes are from the book Beautifully Said. Learn more about the book and the authors here.

Today’s quote is from oceanographer Sylvia Earle.

Sylvia Earle

{Born 1935}

OCEANOGRAPHER • SEA EXPLORER • HERO FOR THE PLANET

Dubbed Her Deepness, Sylvia has logged more than seven thousand hours underwater. She has led more than a hundred expeditions to explore the vast and largely unknown reaches of our oceans. Sylvia’s love for exploring came early in her childhood, when her family moved to the Florida coast. She followed that kidlike wonder to become the first female head of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, a pioneer of marine engineering and a National Geographic explorer-in-residence. Today, the bold oceanographer is on a mission to create protected marine zones called “Hope Spots” to save and restore the vital “blue hart of the planet.”

Quotabelle’s first book is a serendipitous result of the startup’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. This female-powered company creates products that add missing voices back into history and ensure today’s remarkable thinkers and doers aren’t overlooked going forward.

You’ll love seeing quotes by incredible women from bygone eras, like Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Fitzgerald, Harriet Tubman, and Audrey Hepburn, as well as contemporary figures like Serena Williams, Amy Poehler, Malala Yousafzai, as well as noteworthy up-and-comers, including an Everest-scaling mountaineer, a space archaeologist, and a serial entrepreneur. Because sharing ideas and stories is how passions get sparked and role models emerge.